With the 2017 nominations set to be announced in January, you may have wondered exactly how the nominated films get selected.
Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards will be announced 24 January 2017 with the ceremony taking place on 26 February.
Following that, the submissions with the fewest votes are then removed and that person’s second place choice becomes their first.
The Academy is comprised of 70,000 filmmakers and professionals who are all divided up into 17 branches – including actors, directors, editors and more (each respective branch can only nominate five within that branch AKA actors nominate actors, directors nominate directors etc.)